Safety apparatus

• US 20010049840A1
• Filed: 06/07/2001
• Published: 12/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joseph Atanasio
• Original Assignee: Joseph Atanasio
• Inventors: Atanasio, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US09/878,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20010049840A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 2/456
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/018 inflatable automatically

Abstract

A new and improved article of clothing that will severely reduce, and possibly eliminate, the chances that a person who falls down will injure himself or herself The present invention would preferably be a jacket, with the jacket including at least two internal air bags. Both air bags could be in the front portion of the jacket, or the jacket could have one air bag in front and another air bag in back. When the air bags are located on the present invention, each air bag would be located beneath the outer covering of the jacket, effectively hiding it from view. Each air bag would automatically inflate by an activation means. The activation means would either be triggered by a sudden change in position by a user of the jacket or voluntarily triggered by a user by activating an activator that would be attached to a user'"'"'s wrist and connected to the air bags.

Claims

1. A safety apparatus comprising:

(a) a jacket,

(b) a pair of pockets located on the jacket, a first pocket and a second pocket,

(c) a pair of air bags, a first air bag and a second air bag, the first air bag placed within the first pocket, the second air bag placed within the second pocket, and

(d) means for inflating the pair of air bags.

2. A safety apparatus according to

claim 1

wherein the means for inflating the pair of air bags further comprises:

(a) a battery,

(b) a power switch connected to the battery, the power switch having two positions, an “

on”

position and an “

off”

position,

(c) a mercury switch connected to the power switch, the mercury switch positioned to be an open circuit when the jacket would be in an upright position, the mercury switch designed to become a closed circuit once the jacket has deviated from the vertical plane beyond a certain predetermined angle.

(d) a pressure switch connected to the mercury switch, the pressure switch having two positions, an “

on”

position and an “

off”

position, the pressure switch turning to the “

on”

position when the jacket would be worn by an individual,

(e) a solenoid valve connected to the pressure switch,

(f) at least one air canister connected to the solenoid valve, the air canister also connected to the pair of air bags,

(g) wherein the mercury switch, once becoming an closed circuit, will allow power to flow from the battery to the solenoid valve, activating the air canisters which would then forcibly and quickly pump air into the pair of air bags.

3. A safety apparatus according to

claim 1

wherein the means for inflating the pair of air bags further comprises:

(a) a battery,

(b) an activator connected to the battery, the activator normally being an open circuit, the activator preferably being a button located on a sleeve of the jacket,

(c) at least one air canister connected to the activator, the air canister also connected to the pair of air bags,

(d) wherein the activator, once depressed by a user, would become a closed circuit, allowing allow power to flow from the battery to the solenoid valve, activating the air canisters which would then forcibly and quickly pump air into the pair of air bags.